One of three men charged with taking a Winter Garden family hostage in a 2009 home-invasion robbery pleaded no contest to most counts before going to trial Monday.

Miguel Diaz Santiz was part of the group charged with breaking into the family's home on Lake Roberts Landing Drive in November 2009 and kidnapping a pregnant mother, her husband and their 5-year-old son.

Santiz, 27, pleaded no contest to nine of 11 criminal charges, including attempted murder, kidnapping and robbery with a firearm. He is set for sentencing at 1:30 p.m. April 3. Orange Circuit Judge Margaret Schreiber is handling the case.

He faces a minimum mandatory of sentence of 23 years and a possible maximum of life in prison.

Late Friday, an Orange County jury found another defendant, Victor Manuel Sanchez, 22, guilty of burglary, kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft and child abuse. Sanchez also is set to be sentenced April 3.

A third defendant, Oscar Diaz Hernandez, is awaiting trial on March 26.

The attack on the Winter Garden family began when they answered a knock at their door back in late 2009. Gunmen barged their way inside. They stole $30,000 from a safe and demanded more money, according to court documents.

One victim, Marcela Borges, the mother, went to a bank with one intruder and withdrew nearly $24,000 because the kidnappers told her they would kill her husband — Rubens Morais, the president of a trucking company — and their son if she did not, prosecutors said.

Two days later, Borges — who was two months pregnant — jumped from a second-story window, her feet bound, and was wounded by a gunshot as she hobbled to a neighbor's house for help.

A third individual suspected in the home invasion is Bolivian national Bianca Dos Santos, who is thought to have fled the country.